I can see how some people don't like it (though those also tend to be the people not into zombie movies in general, I've found), but I'm loving it, especially since it all takes place within the span of a month or so.

i liked the gunshot / "hospital" stuff. seemed kinda weird, but it brings about more of the "reality" of the situation, whereby people need to hunt, lack of access to hospitals creates the need for crazy setups like the one they needed for the kid...

somehow I missed the follow-up episode where the guys are in the high school. need to check that out online... probably now.

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Its a total roller coaster. First episode had me tense as hell. Second was a tug at the heart strings type episode. Third... well that one kind of mashed that together, but with a really really chilling ending. Is it sociopathic? Is it an instance of "doing ANYTHING for the ones you love"? Was it a shortcut?

I haven't been keeping up with the series as much because I didn't have AMC for awhile, and I'm too lazy to check it out online, but I did get to see one of the most recent episodes where Shane and Otis are getting the medicine for the kid.

The ending was...like it's been said, really shocking. Definitely seemed sociopathic to me. Cool direction for the show to go in.

I often forget that it's not just hardcore zedheads that watch and love the Walking Dead. Keep in mind that this movie was made by Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson.

Dead/Alive Dinner SceneADVANCED WARNING: If you have a weak stomach, I strongly advise not even watching this. Its not particularly gruesome or violent, but certainly pretty damn gross. The rest of the movie, however, is ridiculously filled with gore. It was once deemed "the goriest fright film of all-time" for a reason.

The beautiful thing about zombies is that each source has its own rules.

In the pre-Romero days, zombies were voodoo creations. The only way they could die is either by killing the zombie master (the voodoo priest who created them, thus breaking their control over them) or total dismemberment. Romero (and John A. Russo) made it so that they were 100% literally walking corpses that fed upon living flesh, the only way to kill them being by destroying the brain. Most movies have followed the Romero rules, even Fulci's Zombie (which featured zeds created by a voodoo curse, but they followed the Romero rules of "bullet in the brain = dead"), but then there's the ones that twist it up a bit.

The Return of the Living Dead series (at least the first three; parts 4 and 5 were awful cash-in's, whereas parts 2 and 3 are at least watchable in their own rights) has them created by a chemical, Trioxin 245, and is the only series of zombie movies that actually has them craving brains (more guts are devoured in zombie movies than brains are by a ridiculously large margin, yet the "BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS!!!!!" facet has become prime). The only way to kill them is through incineration (and, in part 2, electrocution). Dead Alive follows the classic "total dismemberment" way of dealing with them to extremely gorey and gooey results.

Basically, any sort of zombie tale can create their own rules and they'll be accepted, but they need to set them in stone and never waiver. That's why a lot of horrible schlock is called out by zedheads: they don't follow their own rules (see: Zombie 4, which features a flying zombie head for no reason; Return of the Living Dead 4 and 5, which eschew the "total incineration" plot that was so important to the first three for just another "SHOOT them in the head" ruling; House of the Dead, which has zombies doing wire-fu and not once following anything resembling a rule; and the horrible Day of the Dead remake that has zombies climbing walls like spiders and spitting bile at people when they're only considered reanimated corpses).